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Table of Contents What are the qualities of text? Text and visual media Consciousness through text Programming Conclusion What are the qualities of text? Text, as a system of recording symbolic representation for communication across time and space, is likely one of the most important inventions of mankind — second...
The tote bag was crocheted without a pattern, I couldn't find any online that I liked! The white part is a pocket too. In the future I'll try drafting a pattern for it -- again. (Left to right): Thrifted Swiss Gear wallet Paperback (One of my favourite books. This was my Christmas gift) Canon Powershot ELPH 1350...
Me gusta escuchar la radio. He escrito unos cuantos posts sobre el tema, por lo que no os pillará de sorpresa. Y de entre todas las emisoras, he ido encontrando algunas que me gustan especialmente, aunque reconozco no ser demasiado selectivo con ellas. Lista, como siempre, en permanente actualización en función de...
Ese fenómeno se está dando ya en la literatura de nuestro país con una proliferación de autores, entre la veintena y la treintena, que con frescura, originalidad y riesgo han armado novelas que, sin renunciar a la calidad, han triunfado. Tres de ellas –Laura Chivite, Irene Pujadas y Lucía Solla...
I like to read. I like to listen to music. I like to watch other people build stuff and make cool things. I have a lot of likes. I think that’s true of everyone. The question I’ve been asking myself recently, however, is what am I passionate about? This feels like the wrong time to ask myself “What do you want to be...
Improving engagement of your online content can come down to how it's previewed on social-media services. If you're like me, and not keen on creating these open-graph images by hand for every post then you can generate them programmatically. Takumi Takumi is a tool that receives JSX and outputs images. It has...
2025-12-26（金） F桑，小我两岁的我的益友良师，K剑今年最后一次稽古最先就找她地稽古了。过程中再次发现自己的架构还是有些偏，她建议我把往右转一下腰，结果竟然有奇效，感觉立刻就对了。中段的架构是左脚在后，所以身体会有点向左后方向偏，以脊柱为轴往右转一点身体才是正的，调整之后再做打击会有左腿→腰→左手连在一起的感觉。...
We spent most of the month in Sri Lanka. It is becoming our annual tradition to travel abroad for the Christmas season. What a country, I’m telling you! People in Sri Lanka are incredibly kind. No matter whether they are wealthy or living in extreme poverty, no matter which god they pray to, south or north, Sri...
These notes on these two books by Fenner Brockway were originally in Books I Read in 2025 Part 2 but I've taken them from there and put them here in their own post. Fenner Brockway, Towards Tomorrow To return to the High Wycombe theme from the Martin O'Neill book outlined in Books I Read in 2025 Part 1, I met Fenner...
Según los expertos, el reciclaje profesional puede adoptar diversas formas: Reskilling: Aprender un nuevo conjunto de habilidades para cambiar de carrera o industria. Upskilling: Mejorar habilidades actuales para avanzar en la misma trayectoria profesional. Reorientación laboral: Cambiar de enfoque profesional hacia...
October:Hallowe'en Party by Agatha ChristieI re-read this for the Halloween episode of Shedunnit, and was pleased to find it better than I remembered. There's a folk horror, pagan element to it that I rather enjoyed.Third Girl by Agatha ChristieA less successful Christie, mostly because of her attempts to be up to...
22nd December - 28th December There are definitely two Tawny Owls in the village as I heard a distinct and prolonged call-and-response over some distance; one faint over the fields but the other in a tree right over my head — loud and terrifying. Getting a head start on some work (actually tying up some loose ends I...
Está bien descansar en esta temporada. Está bien no hacer "nada". Haber sembrado durante el año y disfrutar de la cosecha. Está bien dejar de hacer lo que hace la mayoría. Dejar de seguir apariencias. Seguir relaciones que quitan más de lo que dan. Está bien dar tu máximo si te hace sentir bien, y dar tu mínimo si...
Not sure if it’s the GTK versions or Wayland or Hexchat has been left unmaintained for so long, but it’s pretty slow when I switch buffers from ZNC. I happened to look for alternate GUI IRC clients (I use weechat on the headless server sometimes). I ran into Libera’s IRC client recommendations. Halloy is just what I...
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And that’s it for 2025. It was the year i finally quit my job of sixteen years. I’m grateful to have worked in an environment where i was able to (re)invent my job to tackle the biggest issues facing tech journalism. I experimented with digital publishing and grappled with funding, all the while writing about the...
New Wallpaper - Threading The Needle Following on from my last post I have managed to find the time to put together something new in 2025 so I am finishing the year the way I intend to continue through 2026. Actually making some art! Threading the Needle is a sci-fi piece in a style that is "classic" to me, a combo...
December 2025. Manchester. Walking back from the City v Hammers match I got a text from Matthew; “Fancy a beer ?“, which is exactly the sort of thing you hope a child will grow up to ask you. Quosh had recommended a new brewery tap under the Piccadilly arches (“ANOTHER one ?“), only a 5 minute deviation from the...
I haven't written much the last few weeks. A lot going on. The holidays. My daughter's college graduation. Travel. But, that's okay. I'll get back on track soon. My struggle (or blessing) right now is that there are so many things I want to do... Learn bicycle mechanics (perhaps, by putting together a fixie) Make my...
In iOS, I like how cropping quietly snaps to things that look like borders, with gentle haptics, without announcing anything: #details #direct manipulation #interface design #ios #touch
Nesse mês saíram notícias de que a Prefeitura de São Paulo começou a instalar câmeras de reconhecimento facial do programa Smart Sampa em unidades do CAPS, o que resultou na prisão equivocada de um paciente. Que coisa, né. Imagina só estar em um momento de vulnerabilidade, se locomover para um CAPS em busca de ajuda...
TitleThe Metaphor Detox Centre CreatorSheng Keyi Year2018 Kindbook Read2025-12-29
During a Black Friday sale, I bought some cultivated agarwood “chips” [1] from Crassna Khmer. They are pleasant on the heater, and show some pretty good resination on one side. Some skins from Crassna Khmer that have been broken down to fit into a small jar. I was curious to see how the pulverized skins would...
Si gustas, puedes reproducir este track para acompañar la lectura del post. Vengo llegando de caminar un rato. Procuro tratar de salir por las tardes a caminar, son momentos que aprovecho para despejarme, distraerme, hacer algo de actividad y pues respirar algo de aire. También me sirve para reflexionar y platicar...
In my recent post on the Keyboard Maestro episode of Mac Power Users, I needed a screenshot of a Typinator window and had trouble getting what I wanted. I tried using my SnapClip macro, but I found that when the macro’s user input window appeared, the Typinator window went into the background (as expected) but...
In Searching for Tendler-like formulas we developed new cyclic linear multistep formulas for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. These cyclic formulas are similar to Tendler's formulas. Order by order they improve on Widlund wedge angle and Widlund distance. In Die verwendeten zyklischen...
I've messed around with alcohol stoves for years since they're fun to mess with. There's no end to new designs. Some have amazing craftsmanship while others are mindboggling simple. The classic Fancy Feast stove is no more than a cat food tin with holes punched around the perimeter. It also serves as its own pot...
Recently Sourceware had to disable git clone over HTTP due to an attack where lots of random Git clients are cloning repositories. This was surprising to me, I thought the Git client didn't need any smarts on the server and most of the "magic" was just serving flat files based on the client needs. It turns out that...
I began this year exclusively watching movies from the soviet era to mostly falling for the novelty of 2025 release dates.
I don't like to repeat myself too often, but I see that on this day five years ago I was writing about John Gray's rather wonderful Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life. I'm looking after (i.e. feeding) the Lichfield family's cat while they're away for a few days down South, so there's my excuse. 'Be More...
The 2025 International Landscape Photographer of the Year reveals Earth’s breathtaking beauty through stunning, award-winning nature photography. And free archives from 2014 are available for free as well!
It's a gross, rainy, wet, muddy day here on the World's Tiniest Farm. But I needed carrots and it's about to be a gross, snowy, icy, muddy night and rest of week here, so I picked up my spade and went out to the front garden to get some. (Yes, you can overwinter carrots in the ground. I try to have all mine dug by...
i'm currently in a brief break where i don't really have any real responsibilities for a month. i don't really have to go to uni and there aren't any classes to attend or exams to take. this was supposed to be a relaxing time yet i feel like i'm having the worst time of my life now. my major is consuming me. it...
For the holidays, I gave myself a little experiment: build a small web app for my wife to manage her travel itineraries. I challenged myself to avoid editing the code myself and just do it “vibe” style, to see how far I could get. In the end, the app was built with a $20 Claude “pro” plan and maybe ~5 hours of...
Looking back on the media I consumed in 2025, this is a list of just my favorites. 🎮️ Games Dragon Quest V I was always a Nintendo kid, and have played very few Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy games. I’d heard that is one of the best, and I finally grabbed the iOS port this year. Among other things, I was really...
"Provveditori e Sopraprovveditori sopra Banchi" from the L’Archivio di Stato di Venezia: indice generale, storico, descrittivo ed analitico (1937) by Andrea da Mosto
Here we go, the final week of the year.As I pondered already all the way back in June I wasn’t near any family on Christmas for the first time ever. Instead I was near a beach with friends, having BBQ at a resort while a band played Modern Talking cover songs. Ho-ho-ho. I had a great time, but let’s see if the...
i've fallen into a paralysing habit of jotting down, sitting on and ultimately hoarding a series of my past thoughts. thoughts that bubble to the surface and gnaw at my consciousness, mostly when i'm out and about, that i mentally promise myself I'll "get back to exploring fully, properly... later." yet when i...
I wrote this some time ago while on a train; didn't feel like posting it in the moment, for some reason. I’m on a train. I’ve been itching to write for a while, but it’s difficult to discern whether I actually have something to say, or if it’s just one more way my brain finds to contort any creative downtime I might...
Rudolf Kalvach, Inspiration, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. I think it was right before the Covid era that I went to a Patricia Lockwood reading. During the Q&A, someone asked if she ever suffered from writer’s block, and if so, how she handled it. Of course, I remember her saying; when it happens, you just keep...